Conway
Conway is the 793rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 42,563 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 7,022.
By the numbers
- People
- 42,563
- Rank
- 793rd
- How common
- 1 in 7,022
- Per 100,000
- 14.2
Where the name comes from
Origin Welsh
Anglicization of Welsh Conwy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Conway described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Conway
- Tim Conway (1933–2019)American actor and comedian
- John Horton Conway (1937–2020)English mathematician
- Kellyanne Conway (born 1967)Senior Counselor to the President of the United States from 2017 to 2020
- Lynn Conway (1938–2024)American computer scientist and electrical engineer
- Anne Conway (1631–1679)English philosopher
- Jack Conway (1887–1952)American film director and actor
- Kevin Conway (1942–2020)American actor
- Mike Conway (born 1983)racing driver, 2013-2016 World Endurance Championship driver, 2009-2014 IndyCar driver
People named Conway with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Conway
Also a first name
Conway has been given to 2,932 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.